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Bulletin 15.3: Positive Obligations

INTERIGHTS Bulletin, Volume 15, Issue 4: Postive Obligations of States and the Protection of Human Rights
Edited by Dr Silvia Borelli and David Geer

Contents

Positive Obligations of States and the Protection of Human Rights
Silvia Borelli

Towards Global Responsibility for Human Rights Protection
Helen Duffy

Adjudicating the Positive Duties Imposed by Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Sandra Liebenberg

Positive Obligations to Ensure Equality
Bob Hepple

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Positive Obligations
Alain Didier Olinga

Positive Obligations in the Inter-American Human Rights System
Tara J Melish and Ana Aliverti

Positive Obligations from Strasbourg – Where do the Boundaries Lie?
Philip Leach

Practice and Procedure
Implementing Judgments on the Positive Obligations of States
Geoff Budlender

An International Right to Environment: a New Generation?
Alice Palmer

Case Law Developments
Preventing Slavery: Positive Obligations under the ECHR after Siliadin v France
Cesare Pitea

The Kadi and Yusuf Cases before the Court of First Instance - Jus Cogens and Review of Security Council Resolutions
Simon Olleson

Small Steps: Prosecuting the Recruitment of Child Soldiers – the Case of Sam Hinga Norman
Noah Novogrodsky and Mathew Goldstein

UN Human Rights Committee Decision in Karen Llontoy v Peru
Pardiss Kebriaei

Prohibition on Racial Discrimination in Access to Nationality: Case of the Girls Yean and Bosico v The Dominican Republic
Francisco Quintana

Leyla Sahin: Out of Scale Proportionality?
Basak Çali

News and Developments
Violence against Women: Private Actors and the Obligation of Due Diligence
Andrew Byrnes and Maria Graterol

Reform of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Summary of Recent International Discussions
Linda Pisciotta

Book Reviews

International Law Reports